Levski Sofia

Well, as you already know we'll play together in the Europa League group stage, so who are we?

Levski Sofia was created on 24 May 1914 and we're one of the oldest sport clubs in Bulgaria. The club is named after one of our Bulgarian national heroes (Vasil Levski). Through the years the football club managed to preserve a constant form and in our national championship we have been 26 times champions and 27 times cup holders. Bulgaria is a small country and has/had some specific problems, that's why we don't have much of considerable success in the international tournaments. Personally, Levski has reached the 1/4-finals of the Cup winners cup 3 times, the 1/4-finals of the UEFA Cup 2 times, participated 1 time in the Champions League group stage and 3 times in the UEFA Cup/Europa League group stage.

We are known also with our supporters - biggest attendances and most in numbers in Bulgaria. And more...

And oldschool stuff is really great. Unfortunately, our oldschool dates to the 90s because till '89 in Bulgaria there was communism so it was hard to make any good tifo. Though maybe the first one in Bulgaria was made by Levski fans, against your rival Benfica in 1965:

And some "old" video:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWd7GMen070[/youtube]

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1Jg9sK-F5c[/youtube]

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATsriEMMuhQ[/youtube]

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DmUcIRtmOs[/youtube]

PS: We also had maybe the best ever start of a match in the Champions League - [youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYT5lqok3qg[/youtube](after 01:30 + 03:28)

Well, it was during communism, so we didn't had much of a contacts outside of the "Iron Curtain"... Some knew a bit of spanish (which is closest to you) so that's why the banner is such.

As for the match, we really know that your club is reckon to be the first in the group, so we only hope if we can slip you for a point or 3 in one of the matches. But maybe in the last one, when you have already qualified.

You know that two of the greatest idols that we ever had were bulgarians:

Красимир Генчев Балъков Ивайло Йорданов

“no small number of these whaling seamen belong to the Azores, where the outward bound Nantucket whalers frequently touch to augment their crews from the hardy peasants of those rocky shores.”Herman Melville - Moby Dick

Atlantian, of course I know them. Both were key players at the national team back in the days when we had a quality NT. It's a funny coincidence that none of them have ever played in our leading 2 teams (Levski and cska) but they both reached to play for a strong foreign club.

"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me﻿ what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn’t understand the assignment. I told them they didn’t understand life." — John Lennon

I was very proud of them in the '94 World Cup, as you say, you had a hell of a good team back then.

“no small number of these whaling seamen belong to the Azores, where the outward bound Nantucket whalers frequently touch to augment their crews from the hardy peasants of those rocky shores.”Herman Melville - Moby Dick

Olá!I want to wish you goodluck against Lille. For me they are the most dangerous team in our group, so if Sporting can win against them it will be good for both of our teams. Don't care about Gent, we will crush them